What Is The Theme Of The G Of New York

Gangs of New York (2002), a bold and violent movie directed by Martin Scorsese takes us back to a New York without skyscrapers and modern-day lavishes that shows the rise of violent gang power and political corruption. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis, the film features a personal struggle placed within the context of gang warfare between Nativists and immigrants, which is set in the larger context of the Draft Riots and the Civil War. It is a reconstructed historical narrative that uses interlocking events filled with gang violence and political corruption to show how the modern New York was born.

The Gangs of New York was a movie based on a book written by Herbert Asbury. Five points

Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during one of their many gang wars. As Amsterdam’s story progresses along side The Butcher they become inseparable, but Amsterdam had ulterior motive. Ultimately, Amsterdam attempts to betray his new found ally in order to avenge his father’s death.

   Throughout There Are No Children Here, a continuous, powerful tension always lurks in the background. The gangs that are rampant in the housing projects of Chicago cause this tension. In the Henry Horner Homes, according to Kotlowitz, one person is beaten, shot, or stabbed due to gangs every three days. In one week during the author's study of the projects, police confiscated 22 guns and 330 grams of cocaine in Horner alone (Kotlowitz 32).

In the history of the United States there were a vast amount of political leaders and big businesses that contributed to the success of cities in our country.Greed and the need for power can consume someone and make them feel like they are unstoppable,but little do people know the judgement day is right around the corner.William "Boss" Tweed is a prime example of what the need for power and greed will do to a person.William Tweed played a huge role in the success of New York City through smart politics,corruption,which ultimately led to his conviction. William Tweed was a member of the United States House of Representatives in New York.Tweed,born on April 3,1823,a man of big stature,stood six feet tall,weighing in at 300 pounds with a cheerful personality.Tweed got the nickname Boss because he was the the leader of Tammany Hall.

In gangs, there are many jobs that must be done. The jobs in the gang can be done by any ages, such as adolescents, young adults, or even children. The children that work in gangs can be so young that they are still in elementary school (AACAP). The kids do easy and dangerous jobs that would not bring any attention to them. For instance, being a lookout for cops on the corner would most likely be a job a child does. These jobs put them in harm's way. They could be arrested, or they could be killed by another member of rival gangs. children are small in size and do not look threatening, which in turn keeps them out of the police sites. This also makes them a good asset on a team since they can get away with more than an adult can. Having children in gangs is a big issue, even today and the book The Other Wes Moore shows an insight of how children in gangs work and how they act to each other.

There has been a tremendous change in East Harlem between class warfare and gentrification. East Harlem is one more economic factor to the city’s wealth per capita since the attack of September 11, 2000. It is Manhattan’s last remaining development and it is on the agenda of the tax revenue of our government. East Harlem has become a profit driven capitalism. Gentrification enforces capitalism, it does not separate people, it does not go against race, poor and the working class, it wages war on the poor and the working-class.

The Tweed Ring was lead by a scottish man named William M. Tweed. He was born in April 3, 1823 in ,and died on the date April 12, 1878. He was born in 1 Cherry Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father was a chair maker. He also studied to be a bookkeeper and worked as a brushmaker for a company he had invested in, before eventually joining in the family business in 1852. He then became an apprentice to a saddle maker. He also studied to be a bookkeeper and worked as a brushmaker for a company he had invested in, before eventually joining the family business. On September 29, 1844, he married Mary Jane C. Skaden and lived with her family on Madison Street for 2 years. He eventually joined a volunteer fire company, engine Number 12. He and some friends organized the Americus Fire Company Number 6, also known as the "Big Six".-Corruption-After the election of 1869, Tweed took control of the New York City government. He proposed a new city charter which returned power to City Hall at the expense of the Republican-inspired state commissions. The new charter passed, thanks to $600,000 in bribes Tweed paid to Republicans, and the new charter signed into law in 1870. The new charter put control of the finances in the hands of a Board of Audit, which consisted of Tweed, who was Commissioner of Public Works at the time, Mayor A. Oakey Hall and Comptroller Richard Connolly. He also started to form what became known as the "Tweed Ring", by having his friends elected to

Gilbert Osofsky’s Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto paints a grim picture of inevitability for the once-exclusive neighborhood of Harlem, New York. Ososfky’s timeframe is set in 1890-1930 and his study is split up into three parts. His analysis is convincing in explaining the social and economic reasons why Harlem became the slum that it is widely infamous for today, but he fails to highlight many of the positive aspects of the enduring neighborhood, and the lack of political analysis in the book is troubling.

He owned a printing company and set up a law office. For twelve years, he ruled New York. His power grew after the civil war over. The nation and New York was growing so Tweed took his chance. In 1868 he was chosen to be the state legislature. This enabled him to pass laws that indeed gave him greater power to the offices and his colleagues held. A journalist and cartoonist named Thomas Nast despised the corruption William made. Nast named Tweed a “archetypal bearded, bloated boss.” Tweed tried to get Nast fired from his job at Harper’s Weekly, threatened him and the company, and even tried to pay off both with an enormous amount of

“Gangs have morphed from social organizations into full-fledged criminal enterprises” (Thomas, 2009, para 5). Gangs are highly sophisticated and more dangerous then ever. The number one reason to join a gang is money; and 95 percent of gangs profit comes from drug dealing

Tweed is the most well know political boss in the history of the United States, so much so that he was nicknamed “Boss”. He started working as a book keeper before he became a United States Congressmen from 1853 to 1855. After only one term he returned to city politics as a board of supervisors to look for corruption in the cities elections. He controlled New York from 1859 to 1873, but first used his power for corruption in 1856 as a city board supervisor. He was able to build the political machine Tammany Hall was known for by appointing friends to key city post. By 1859, he controlled the Democratic Party in the New

Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical “ghetto” life, a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year’s old. The allure of the respect and “glory” that “bangers” got, along with the unity of the “set”(name for the specific gang) is what drew him into the gang. Once joined, he vowed to stay in the “set” for life, and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this, he eventually realized that the

A Pickpocket’s Tale gives an extraordinarily different view into New York’s underworld of the nineteenth century. The underworld of New York in the nineteenth century has usually been a topic described by clichéd explicit narratives of merciless urban gangsters and scary underworld stereotypes. Through his biography, A Pickpocket’s Tale, of New York’s nineteenth century underworld criminal George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle transforms this unoriginal genre into something quite interesting. Gilfoyle provides his audience with an abundance of insight and a compound analysis of an actual human being of the nineteenth century. Gilfoyle uses Appo’s autobiography that he wrote before dying to bring forth a fully understood portrait of a skillful

Without sound, the gangster films could not come to life. It was the 1930s that the events of the prohibition era such as bootlegging and the St. Valentines Day Massacre of 1929, and the existence of real life gangsters and the rise of contemporary organized crime helped to encourage this genre. The talkies are accounted for the rise of crime films. The first talkie “100% all talking” picture and, of course, the first sound gangster film was The Lights of New York in 1928. Martin Sorcese, Brian De Palma, and Francis Ford Coppolla, who also directed the Godfather, have become the best storytellers of the gangster culture using visual storytelling. To them gangster films are moralities tales and success stories turned around in which criminals are the ones living in a dream world of success and wealth. Although they are destined to failure and possible death, criminals are portraying as the victims because the stories are told from their point of view. Great actors like Pacino, Deniro, who both played in the Godfather and Pesci also had an influence in making the gangster/mafia culture what it is today, by playing their parts so unbelievable well that their attitude, dialogue, and cold hearted cruelty on the screen transforms the modern day